An array comprising a plurality of three-color pixel elements is disclosed. The three-color pixel element has square design disposed at the origin of an X, Y coordinate system. Disposed at the center of the square is a blue emitter. Red emitters are disposed in the second and fourth quadrants not occupied by the blue emitter and green emitters are disposed in the first and third quadrants not occupied by the blue emitter. The blue emitter is square shaped, having corners aligned at the X and Y axes of the coordinate system, and the opposing pairs of red and green emitters are generally square shaped, having truncated inwardly-facing corners forming edges parallel to the sides of the blue emitter. The plurality of three-color pixel elements may be arranged in rows and columns to form a display. Each emitter has a transistor. The column lines and row lines are doubled to allow for the transistors of the red emitters and green emitters to be gathered together into the interstitial corners between the three-color pixel elements creating combined transistor groups. With the transistors grouped together, the combined transistors groups and the blue emitters both become less visible, virtually vanishing from sight almost entirely.
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1. A display comprising: a display surface tiled by a repeating subpixel repeating group, said repeating group comprising a selectively activatable blue subpixel, and at least a differently colored and independently selectively activatable second subpixel and a differently colored and independently selectively activatable third subpixel; wherein said blue subpixels, said second colored subpixels and said third colored subpixels are respectively operatively coupled to associated subpixel drive structures which independently drive the respective subpixels when selectively activating the respective subpixels; wherein said associated subpixel drive structures of the second and third subpixels are positionally clustered together at interstitial areas between said subpixel repeating groups such that said positionally clustered associated structures of the second and third subpixels form first luminance dark spot regions dispersed across the display surface and between the blue subpixels such that perception of second luminance dark spot regions defined by distribution of said blue subpixels and by distribution of the respective subpixel drive structures associated with the blue subpixels upon said display surface is decreased for a human viewer due to interspersing of the first luminance dark spot regions among the second luminance dark spot regions.
2. The display of claim 1 wherein said second colored subpixels are red subpixels and said third colored subpixels are green subpixels; and wherein in each subpixel repeating group there are plural independently activatable red subpixels and plural independently activatable green subpixels and said red subpixels and said green subpixels define substantially a checkerboard pattern within each said repeating group.
3. The display of claim 1 wherein said associated structures include transistors.
4. The display of claim 1 wherein said associated structures include capacitors.
5. A color display for displaying color images, the display comprising: a plurality of substantially identical pixel units tiled across a face of the display, where each pixel unit includes a first plurality of independently drivable first subpixel elements that can primarily emit light of a first wavelength, where each pixel unit includes a second plurality of independently drivable second subpixel elements that can primarily emit light of a second wavelength, where each pixel unit includes an independently drivable third subpixel element that can primarily emit light of a third wavelength, said third wavelength being shorter than the second wavelength and said second wavelength being shorter than the first wavelength; wherein said third subpixel elements are uniformly spaced apart from each other across the face of the display, and wherein each of said independently drivable first and second subpixel elements has a respective subelement drive structure operatively coupled thereto for independently driving that subpixel element and the subelement drive structures of more than two adjacent ones of the first and second subpixel elements are positionally clustered together to thereby form first luminance dark spot regions dispersed across the display face and dispersed between the third subpixel elements.
6. The color display of claim 5 wherein said third subpixel elements primarily emit a blue light.
7. The color display of claim 5 wherein said first subpixel elements primarily emit a red light.
8. The color display of claim 5 wherein said second subpixel elements primarily emit a green light.
9. The color display of claim 8 wherein said third subpixel elements primarily emit a blue light.
10. A method of uniformly distributing luminance dark spots across a face of a color display, the method comprising: providing a plurality of substantially identical pixel units tiled across the face of the display, where each pixel unit includes a first plurality of independently drivable first subpixel elements that can primarily emit light of a first wavelength, where each pixel unit includes a second plurality of independently drivable second subpixel elements that can primarily emit light of a second wavelength, where each pixel unit includes an independently drivable third subpixel element that can primarily emit light of a third wavelength, said third wavelength being shorter than the second wavelength and said second wavelength being shorter than the first wavelength; spacing apart said third subpixel elements uniformly from each other across the face of the display, and providing each of said independently drivable first and second subpixel elements with a respective subelement drive structure that operatively coupled thereto for independently driving that subpixel element, where said providing of the subelement drive structures includes positionally clustering together the subelement drive structures of more than two adjacent ones of the first and second subpixel elements to thereby form first luminance dark spot regions dispersed across the display face and dispersed between the third subpixel elements.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein said third subpixel elements primarily emit a blue light.
12. The method of claim 10 wherein said first subpixel elements primarily emit a red light.
13. The method of claim 10 wherein said second subpixel elements primarily emit a green light.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein said third subpixel elements primarily emit a blue light.
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